Holidays Calendar for July 15, 2018

Galla Bayramy is a public holiday in Turkmenistan that celebrates the annual wheat harvest. It is observed on the third Sunday in July. Galla Bayramy is often regarded as the professional holiday of the country's agricultural workers.

Democracy and National Unity Day (Demokrasi ve Milli Birlik Günü) is a public holiday in Turkey celebrated on July 15. It is the country’s newest public holiday, created to commemorate the national unity against the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt that took place on July 15, 2016.

Day of Metallurgist is a professional holiday celebrated in some former Soviet republics, namely Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and Kazakhstan, on the third Sunday in July. It originated in the Soviet Union in 1957.

Sabantuy is an annual summer festival of the Tatar, Bashkir and Idel-Uralian nationalities. It's annually observed on July 5. Over the centuries this festival has became the visit card of the named nationalities.

Lithuania and Poland annually observe Battle of Grunwald Day. This battle was fought on July 15, 1410 between the alliance of Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the German-Prussian Teutonic Knights.

Children's Day in Panama is celebrated on the third Sunday in July. It was originally held on November 1, but First Lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos decided to change the date because there were too many holidays in November.

Festivals on July 15, 2018

This Day in History

2006Twitter was officially launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.

2002Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan haded down the death sentence to Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and killed in February 2002.

1967Born: Adam Savage, American actor and special effects designer, best known as one of two co-hosts of the Discovery Channel series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction.

1955The Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons was signed by 18 Nobel Prize laureates. Later the declaration was co-signed by 34 other laureates.

1946Born: Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress. She earned 11 Grammy Awards, 3 American Music Awards, 2 Academy of Country Music awards, 1 Emmy and 1 ALMA Award. She also won a Tony Award and a Golden Globe for her achievements in film industry.

1940Died: Robert Wadlow, American giant, known as Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois. He was the tallest person in recorded history. He reached 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) in height and weighed 439 lb (199 kg). He continued to grow even at the time of his death.

1939Died: Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist, notable for contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined the terms schizophrenia, autism, schizoid and ambivalence.

1926Born: Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina. He was the last military dictatorship, deposed soon after he assumed the office. His presidency lasted from December 22, 1981 to June 18, 1982.

1922Born: Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate for contribution to research on neutrinos, concerning the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

1919Died: Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for his work on sugar and purine synthesis.

1918Born: Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He received the prize for contributions to the development of neutron spectroscopy.

1916William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products, that later was named Boeing. Nowadays The Boeing Company is one of the largest global aircraft manufacturers.

1910Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer's disease in his book Clinical Psychiatry. He named the disease after his colleague Alois Alzheimer, suffering it.

1904Died: Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author, considered to be one of the greatest writers of short stories in history. His most famous works The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya are staged around the world.

1890Died: Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright, best remembered for novel Green Henry. He was one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.

1868Died: William T. G. Morton, American dentist. Morton became the first to use inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic. Promotion anesthesia after its discovery became an obsession for the rest of his life.

1867Born: Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer. He headed the French Antarctic expedition in 1903, that lasted for almost 2 years. During that time he explored and described about 1,000 km of the sealine.

1848Born: Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist, known for several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and the analysis of individuals' choices.

1834The Spanish Inquisition was officially disbanded after nearly 356 years of existence. During this time Inquisition processed about 150,000 trials, only 2% were charged to death sentence (that makes between 3,000-5,000 executed).

1765Died: Charles-André van Loo, French painter, the most famous member of dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His worked in every category: allegory, genre scenes, portraiture, history painting, religion. One of his most famous paintings is Marriage of the Virgin, that is presented in the Louvre.

1609Died: Annibale Carracci, Italian painter of Baroque era. Carracci's paintings were inspired by mature Renaissance artists like Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Titian and Veronese and nowadays he is considered to have laid the foundations for the birth of Baroque painting.

1606Born: Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher, considered to be one of the greatest painters and printmakers in Dutch history.